Appeal No. 2002-2327
Application No. 09/142,549
manner proposed by the Examiner could only come from Appellants’
own disclosure and not from any teaching or suggestion in the
references themselves.
We are further of the opinion that even assuming, arguendo,
that proper motivation were established for the Examiner’s
proposed combination of references, we fail to see how and in
what manner the references could be combined to arrive at the
specific combination set forth in the appealed independent
claims. As asserted by Appellants (Brief, page 7), the
combination of Iu and Girod would, at best, suggest the insertion
of watermark data into a video signal bit stream that has been
coded to maximize compression, a result which falls far short of
the claimed requirement of embedding supplemental data in a video
signal by using a particular coded picture pattern sequence to
represent the supplemental data.
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